Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...coming out and competing in the athletic sports. '88 has shown up well on the foot ball field and has offered a number of candidates for the crew and nine. Keep this up, '88, and do better still by the Athletic Association. Let every man who has the slightest show for any event, enter his name and do his best for the class and the college...
...nine, would be a disgrace to them and the college, and that unfair applause has never been met with by those opponents who have played us here in Cambridge. Harvard, if necessary, can bear defeat, but the college cannot bear that our visitors should feel that there was the slightest tinge of unfairness in their treatment. Let every man, then, give his heartiest support to the nine; and whether victory or defeat shall come to us in the next few weeks, we will have done all that is possible to gain the championship squarely and honorably from the college that...
...quiet inhabitants of Cambridge, there is invariably some cause for the celebrations, and in most cases a good and sufficient cause. Our celebrations, we believe, are always confined to victories, which have been won by our teams. At some of our sister colleges, however, this limit is overstepped. The slightest cause will often be considered sufficient for a celebration. At many of the smaller colleges the completion of the study of mathematics is seized upon as a suitable occasion for a procession and other appropriate exercises. The sophomore class at Dartmouth recently cremated their mathematics. The occasion is thus described...
...justice to the '84 crew, we would say that while this editorial is, of course, based on their action in adopting the new stroke, yet, in their case, it made not the slightest difference to the university crew, excepting the precedent established...
Without the slightest wish to be officious in any way, we tender our sincere congratulations to the fair unknown, that the author of the verse is not a "little bird," and has not "two little wings," nor three, nor four little wings either as some birds apparently have, and that "it cannot be." It is possible that we mistake the poet's meaning in this verse, but really, we have not been able to discover any, and so had to invent one for ourselves...